Anyway, the council unanimously approved a motion that supports federal legislation to downgrade the notion of corporate personhood, according to the City Maven.

Councilman and would-be mayor Eric Garcetti is quoted as saying:

With our economy reeling, individual people have less and less of a role, it seems, in America these days. Unless there are big changes, your voice is only as loud as your bank account and it's big corporations that have the largest bank accounts.

L.A. Weekly staff writer Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.